surgeon, healer, deliverer
poet. for ἰατρός, in Hom. mostly, surgeon, Il. 2.732, Od. 17.384, cf. Pi. P. 3.65, etc.: generally, healer, νόσων Theoc. Ep. 8: metaph., ἰ. κακῶν S. Tr. 1209; πένθεος AP 7.466.8 (Leon.): abs., deliverer, Pi. P. 4.270.
The corpus record
ἰατήρ
iater · ὁ
surgeon, healer, deliverer
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Where it lives
- Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
- Iliad 5 · 0.45/10k
- Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
- Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
- Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἰητὴρ · iētēr Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2554)
- ἰητῆρος · iētēros Iliad 11.518
- ἰητῆρος · iētēros Iliad 11.835
- ἰητῆρʼ · iētērʼ Iliad 2.732
- ἰητὴρ · iētēr Iliad 4.190
- ἰητῆρος · iētēros Iliad 4.194
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.